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NITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

WELCOME WHITE, OF BALTIMORE, MARYLAND.

BUTTER-PAQKAG E.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 330,653, dated November1'] 1885.

Application filed September 11, 1885. Serial No; 176,855. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, WELCOME WHITE, a citizen of the United States,residing at Baltimore, in the State of Maryland, haveinvented certainnew and useful Improvements in Butter-Packages, of which the followingis a specification.

My invention relates to improvements in the construction of woodenbutter-packages.

The features which comprise the invention are illustrated in theaccompanying drawings, and will be described in connection therewith,and then designated in the claim.

Figure l is a vertical section of an improved package containing butter.Fig.2 is. a sectional view of a portion of the wall of the package. Fig.3 is a top view of a portion of the wall of the package, and showing theposition of the inner cylinder. Fig. 4 is a view of the inner surface ofthe bottom of the package. Fig. 5 is a side view of the top part of thepackage, showing the cover attached in a different manner from that seenin Fig. 1.

The walls A are made of staves of any suitable wood, which are first setup in the ordinary way, and the bottom B is inserted in a croze groove,0, formed in the staves, as usual, and hoops d, of wood or metal,complete an ordinary butter-tub. At this stage of manufacture the tub isput in alathe, and by means of a suitable cutter or turning-toolportions of the inner surface of the wall are removed to form circularribs or continuous beads e, which project inward. These ribs or beadsare integral with the material composing the wall. Ordinarily four suchribs or continuous beads, spaced apart equally between the top and thebottom of the tub, are sufficient. In small tubs three might serve thepurpose, and in large tubs more than four may be used. After the ribshave been formed several notches or cutaways, f, are made in each. Thesenotches, preferably, are so located as to divide the con tinu'ous ribsinto parts of equal length. While the tub is still in the lathe anothercutter is employed to remove portions of the surface of the bottom B,and thereby form circular raised beads g,which project upward, and thesebeads at several points are notched or cut away, as at h, in similarmanner to those on the wall. The inner surface of the cover Iis in likemanner provided with circular beads g, which are notched, and a hole,is, is made in the cover. A thin wood disk, Z, is placed in the tub andrests upon the circular beads g of the bottom, whereby spaces m are leftat the bottom below the disk. A thin wood cylinder, Z,is set within thetub, its lower edge being seated on the thin disk and its walls restingagainst the inward-projecting ribs or beads e on the tub-wall. By thisconstruction spaces m are left all around between the inner cylinder andwalls of the tub.

As above described, the package is ready to receive the butter.

In packing butter in the cylinder care should be taken to pack it closeand avoid leaving crevices or unfilled spaces for the retention of air.When full, the top surface of the butter should be leveled, and then athin wood disk,

Z, placed on the butter and seated on the top rim of the cylinder Z. Thecover I is then placed in position. Its circular beads y will rest onthe top disk, Z, and thereby spaces m will be formed at the top, thesame as those at the bottom. By the removal of the bung 7c brine maythen be introduced through the hole It in the cover, and it will flowthrough the notches or cut-aways f and h, and fill all the spaces aroundthe cylinder at the bottom,sides, and top. By this arrangement thebutter will be entirely surrounded by abrine jacket, which willthoroughly exclude the air and result in preserving the butter sweet andin good condition.

I do not claim, broadly, a butter-package in which a brine-space isformed at the bottom, sides, and top; but my invention, as hereindescribed, relates to the formation in a butterpackage of abrine-space-by certain improved means, which has advantages over anyother heretofore used. One advantage lies in the face that no nails,screws, or other metal is employed that will come in contact with thebrine or the butter. The contrivances heretofore used have been deemedobjectionable on this account.

Another advantage possessed by this construction is that there are noloose or separate cleats or sticks to get lost when the packages areempty or when they are shipped, andthereby this package may readily beused more than once, as all its parts are easily kept in shape; and animportant advantage is that these packages can be manufactured at muchless cost tion circular ribs orbeads on theinnersurface than any whichembody cleats that are sepaof the package and integral with the materialrately fastened either to the tub-wall or the composingthesaidsurface,andhavingnotches r 5 cylinder-lining. or cut-aways, and a liningresting against the 5 As shown in Fig. 1, the cover I may be insaid ribsor beads, as set forth.

serted in the same manner as the bottom, or, In testimony whereof Iafiixmy signature in as shown in Fig. 5, may have a downflange, presence oftwo witnesses.

n, to fit around the top rim of the hub. I WELCOME WHITE Havingdescribed my invention, I claim and 10 desire to secure by LettersPatent of the United Witnesses:

States- JOHN E. MORRIS,

A wood butter-package having, in combina- J No. '1. MADDOX.

